There is no evidence more visible that the American people are already rebelling against the far-left agenda than Senator Arlen Specter switching parties to become a Democrat. He did this for one reason, and that is his advisers told him he couldn’t retain his Senate seat as a Republican. In other words, the same people who supported Senator Specter six years ago have soundly rejected him today.

That, my friends, sounds like 1994. The extreme liberal agenda is not sellable to the American people. Just wait and see.

UPDATE 2: After further debate, a second vote was taken, with D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) deciding to vote against the proposal. The final count is 12-1 in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states.

UPDATE: D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) has now asked that the gay marriage bill be reconsidered. He didn't realize what he was voting on before.

He just gave a speech saying he is going to vote against it so it won't be unanimous vote. The council is now debating the bill.

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Washington Post reporter Tim Craig relays that the D.C. Council has voted 13-0, without debate, to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. Watch D.C. Wire for updates.

kruker wrote:I mean.....if the people electing Marion Berry to city council isn't the best example of why they shouldn't have true Congressional representation, I don't know what is.

kruker wrote:Dajafi, your favorite scumbag ex-Senator Tom Daschle has a health care article in Newsweek. He even tries to force a baseball metaphor into the piece.

link

kruker wrote:I mean.....if the people electing Marion Berry to city council isn't the best example of why they shouldn't have true Congressional representation, I don't know what is.

allentown wrote:

kruker wrote:I mean.....if the people electing Marion Berry to city council isn't the best example of why they shouldn't have true Congressional representation, I don't know what is.

By that theory Illinois shouldn't have a Governor and Pennsylvania shouldn't have a Supreme Court.

VoxOrion wrote:I have trouble imagining how journalists would be very economically conservative. .

Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that?

SPECTER: I sure do. There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that?

SPECTER: I sure do. There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.

OMFG he's special

dajafi wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that?

SPECTER: I sure do. There’s still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.

OMFG he's special

He should just walk around wearing a PRIMARY ME sign.

Sen. Arlen Specter is no longer looking like a lock for re-election as a Democrat – at least not with former Republican governor Tom Ridge in the race, according to a new poll conducted by the GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies.

Specter trails Ridge by seven points, 48 to 41 percent, in a general election matchup. The poll also shows Ridge handily defeating former GOP congressman Pat Toomey, 60 to 23 percent, in a Republican primary.

Ridge holds high approval ratings throughout the Keystone State, with 67 percent of voters having a favorable impression of him, with only18 percent viewing him unfavorably.

Specter’s overall favorable rating is at 50 percent, with 40 percent of voters viewing him unfavorably.

Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution expected to be passed on the floor late Tuesday.

A Democratic aide acknowledged Tuesday that under the modified organizing resolution, Specter would not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and would be the junior Democrat on all but one — the chamber’s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority.

As a result, Specter — who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education — will rank behind all other Democrats, at least until the end of this Congress.

jerseyhoya wrote:

Despite promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that Sen. Arlen Specter would retain his seniority after switching parties, Specter will be put at the end of the seniority line on all his committees but one under a resolution expected to be passed on the floor late Tuesday.

A Democratic aide acknowledged Tuesday that under the modified organizing resolution, Specter would not keep his committee seniority on any of the five committees that he serves on and would be the junior Democrat on all but one — the chamber’s Special Committee on Aging. On that committee, he will be next to last in seniority.

As a result, Specter — who as a Republican was ranking member on the Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, as well as ranking member of the panel’s Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education — will rank behind all other Democrats, at least until the end of this Congress.

Arlen really thought this out like a champ, huh

...Portugal, which in 2001 became the first European country to officially abolish all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
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Under Portugal's new regime, people found guilty of possessing small amounts of drugs are sent to a panel consisting of a psychologist, social worker and legal adviser for appropriate treatment (which may be refused without criminal punishment), instead of jail.
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The Cato paperreports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%; drug use in older teens also declined. Lifetime heroin use among 16-to-18-year-olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half. In addition, the number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and money saved on enforcement allowed for increased funding of drug-free treatment as well.